Generative Constitutions - by Jesse Callahan Bryant

A long time ago as the Jacobins were burning down aristocratic France a deeply conservative guy named Joseph looked on with ire. Like all reactionary conservatives there was something he admired in the progressives—their faith in their cause and willingness to use violence as a strategy. And yet, he thought they were too smart for their own good. See, the revolutionaries thought that they could reason their way into some kind of constitution that could be written down. To the contrary, Joesph believed that this was foolish, but rather “that that which is most fundamental, and most essentially constitutional, in the laws of a nation, is precisely what cannot be written.” In other words, people are a way regardless of what is written down, and thus here we find divergent meanings of law where, on the one hand, it is the way our world works (the law of gravity, superfluidity, or hunger), and on the other hand, it is constraints on how our world works (speed limits, the Endangered Species

A long time ago as the Jacobins were burning down aristocratic France a deeply conservative guy named Joseph looked on with ire. Like all reactionary conservatives there was something he admired in the progressives—their faith in their cause and willingness to use violence as a strategy. And yet, he thought they were too smart for their own good. See, the revolutionaries thought that they could reason their way into some kind of constitution that could be written down. To the contrary, Joesph believed that this was foolish, but rather “that that which is most fundamental, and most essentially